I have a 3 disk raid-5 array I want to convert to a 4 disk raid-6 array.
I added the 4th disk as a spare, and thought that it would get used
automatically when I converted it to 6, but instead it created a
degraded
raid 6 array. So I removed the spare and added it back to the array to
get it to rebuild. It did start rebuilding, but stalled out.
Here's some console output showing what I did:
root@iblis:/home/hatta# mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --level 6 --raid-devices 4
--backup-file=/mnt/sda6/yo
mdadm level of /dev/md2 changed to raid6
root@iblis:/home/hatta# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md2 : active (auto-read-only) raid6 sdd1[0] sde1[3](S) sdf1[2] sdc1[1]
2930271872 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 18 [4/3] [UUU_]
root@iblis:/home/hatta# mdadm /dev/md2 --remove /dev/sde1
mdadm: hot removed /dev/sde1 from /dev/md2
root@iblis:/home/hatta# mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sde1
mdadm: re-added /dev/sde1
root@iblis:/home/hatta# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md2 : active raid6 sde1[4] sdd1[0] sdf1[2] sdc1[1]
2930271872 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 18 [4/3] [UUU_]
[>....................] recovery = 0.0% (8192/1465135936)
finish=11899.9min speed=2048K/sec
...
...
...
md2 : active raid6 sde1[4] sdd1[0] sdf1[2] sdc1[1]
2930271872 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 18 [4/3] [UUU_]
[>....................] recovery = 0.0% (8192/1465135936)
finish=2954174.4min speed=8K/sec
What's going on here?
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